Spring is here...Up next for your graduating student is Spring Break, final classes, a Summer job -you hope- and then off to college.  But which college?   The Center for World University Rankings used eight indicators including quality of education, alumni employment, and influence to determine its rankings of the Top Ten public universities.  U Dub Huskies can bark with pride because the University of Washington makes the list at number 8.

California gets a lot of things wrong but public education they seem to get right with four of the top ten spots.

 Top-10 best public universities:
The list of the top-10 best public universities is out, thanks to the. The top-10:
10. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
9. University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
8. University of Washington at Seattle
7. University of Texas at Austin
6. University of California at San Francisco
5. University of Wisconsin at Madison
4. University of California at San Diego
3. University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
2. University of California at Los Angeles
1. University of California at Berkeley
Now, if money is NO OBJECT and all options are open there are other choices to be had but again, California is seen to be on top,

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/world-university-rankings/2016/world-ranking#!/page/0/length/25

  The World's Top 10:

  1. University of Chicago
    9. ETH Zurich – Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich
    8. Imperial College London
    7. Princeton University
    6. Harvard University
  2. 5.Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
    4. University of Cambridge
    3. Stanford University
    2. University of Oxford
    1. California Institute of Technology (Caltech)

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